Time is not the enemy, U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes has consistently said. Time is simply a circumstance -- one she cannot fight against.
The new coach had just four friendly matches and less than two months on the sidelines with the USWNT to prepare the team for the 2024 Olympics. Implementing new ideas and establishing chemistry was going to require time, she said, and that thought would serve as a guiding principle to all her decisions going forward.
"I can only control what I can control," she said in her introduction to reporters in late May.